Our client is a major manufacturer of pharmaceutical products and they are looking for an experienced Group Leader in Formulation to join their team.

The Group Leader, Formulation Development will be responsible for managing a team of formulation scientists and technicians / operators to ensure the efficient and effective running of the group. The individual will be responsible for ensuring delivery of projects to agreed timelines and budgets.

1. Manage a team of Formulation Development Scientists and technicians / operators, taking responsibility for recruitment, performance management and staff development.

2. Maintain a portfolio of development projects, ensuring adherence to client timelines. Manage the group with a business mindset, ensuring efficient and productive throughput of development projects with your resource. Work with project management to ensure recognition of out of scope activities versus plan and budget.

3. Be responsible for the quality of the scientific output from formulation and process studies to ensure CMC activities meet current regulatory and cGMP standards.

4. Provide expert input in to formulation and process studies to ensure these projects follow the correct technical direction.

5. Ensure formulations and processes are designed to accomodate scale-up and technical transfer to GMP facilities.

6. Communicate effectively with other disciplines such as GMP Manufacturing, Analytical Support, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Engineering to ensure that operations are planned in an efficient manner.

7. Maintain the pharmaceutical environment within the laboratory/production area in line with internal procedures and regulatory requirements.

8. Provide technical leadership and assume responsibility for development and GMP manufacturing activities necessary to support internal and external tech transfer and process scale-up activities

Please feel free to come back to me with any queries.

Many Thanks,

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